2023-06-13 22:19:31
Under Wednesday, June 14, the book of history records, among other things:
1158: Founding of Munich – on this day Friedrich Barbarossa issued the documents to settle the dispute between Bishop Otto von Freising and Duke Heinrich the Lion.
1813: In the Reichenbach Convention, Sweden and Great Britain side with the opponents of Napoleon I.
1918: Beginning of the last offensive of the Imperial and Royal Army in Italy in the Tonale Pass section.
1948: Commissioning of Zurich-Kloten Airport.
1993: Beginning of the UN Human Rights Conference in Vienna, attended by 171 countries. The final document, “The Vienna Declaration”, establishes the universality of human rights and the rights of women, children, minorities and indigenous peoples. Beijing’s attempt to force the Dalai Lama to be expelled has led to serious disagreements between Austria and China.
2003: In a referendum, the Czechs voted with 77.3 percent for their country’s accession to the European Union (participation: 55.2 percent).
2003: North and South Korea are symbolically restoring railway connections that have been interrupted for decades.
2008: The Austrian 470 sailors Sylvia Vogl and Carolina Flatscher win gold at the European Championships on Lake Garda.
2018: The trial once morest the gang of people smugglers, who are held responsible for the deaths of 71 refugees discovered on the Ostautobahn in Burgenland in August 2015, ended with prison sentences of 25 years each for the four main accused. The court in the southern Hungarian city of Kecskemet remains under the life sentences demanded by prosecutors. The refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan were suffocated on Hungarian territory, so the negotiations were not conducted in Austria.
2018: The ÖGB elects the previous GPA chairman Wolfgang Katzian as the new president.
birthdays: Karl Landsteiner, Austria physicians, discoverers of blood groups and the Rhesus factor; Nobel Prize 1930 (1868-1943); Theodore Bloomfield, US conductor (1923-1998); Judith Kerr, British writer (1923-2019); Ernesto “Che” Guevara, arg.-kub. Revolutionary (1928-1967); Olaf Scholz, German politician; Chancellor since 2021 (1958).
days of death: Jürgen Fehling, German theater director (1885-1968); Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet (1901-1968); Leo Glückselig, Austro-US artist (1914-2003); Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish composer (1916-1968); Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (1964-2008).
name days: Hartwig, Meinrad, Buchard, Elisäus, Gottschalk, Basilius, Luitpold, Antonia, Lothar.
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